Thanks to all re Win2KPro reload....

Did the sys c: thingy and all worked fine.
Win98 didnt see any other OS's and I could reinstall my newer virgin of Win2Pro without a hitch...as opposed to the previous install which couldnt find (although I could) several (obviously important filse).

All that remains to be seen is if this version is stable enough to do da business. I've only got it to run DVDMaestro and SCenarist DVD authoring proggies - my Roadster and LTWin modems and my Matrox Video/TV Capture cards are not Win2KPro compliant and as I found out - never will be. So Win98SE stays until they go.

PS - I installed the Win2KPro on a 1.2GB partition thinking that was plenty. I have 50MB left!!! Surely this is not all Win2K?